![]() Rufus Wainwright hits the Danforth Music Hall June 11 and 12. Expecting camp-crazy Neil Tennant (who exec produced) to lay down the law is just loopy. 2 and the arch Going To A Town, are strongest, and I’m totally into the seething political critique that’s become more prominent in your music, but I wish you’d had, say, a Van Dyke Parks on board to help focus this disc. Even in the thick of the gay hell years, I can’t imagine you would’ve penned something as graceless as the line “I shed a tear / between my legs.” The more considered ballads here, like the languid Leaving For Paris No. But the outlandish baroque-cubed excess here, from the warbling chorales to the bleating woodwinds, weighs down track after track after track after track – often, sadly, at the expense of your songwriting. The Jerusalem Syndrome: My Life as a Reluctant MessiahMarc Maron. ![]() After all, you have a better pedigree (and taste) than most of your peers. The Painters ConfessionPhilip Callow, Grow and Cook: Making the Most of Food from. In theory, self-producing Release The Stars made perfect sense – especially when you intended to make a spare, personal statement with open spaces and cocktail confessions. ![]() But, sweetheart, you need a steady hand to keep you in check. I thrill to your Wagnerian histrionics and crushed-velvet piano serenades. It’s a story of the author’s adventures as a biplane pilot, moving from town to town across the Midwest, and sleeping under the wing of his aircraft. ![]() ![]() Rufus, j’adore you you’re my favourite reluctant gay messiah. This is the focal point of the book Illusions: The Adventures Of A Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach. ![]()
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